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February 20, 2017

Alan Aldridge: Tangerine trees and marmalade skies.

In 2008 I met up with Alan Aldridge to interview him about his major contribution to Brtish Graphics and illustration and his very eventful life along the way.

He had travelled from his home in Los Angeles to attend the opening of a retrospective of his work and the publication of, The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes . So as if by magic let's revisit that warm summer afternoon at Aldridge's daughter's flat in Notting Hill...

Sunday Times cover 1965

Poster How would you paint your own wife by Alan Aldridge 1967

Just a fraction of the many Penguin covers designed by Aldridge during his Art Directorship.

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In 2008 I met up with Alan Aldridge to interview him about his major contribution to Brtish Graphics and illustration and his very eventful life along the way.

He had travelled from his home in Los Angeles to attend the opening of a retrospective of his work and the publication of, The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes . So as if by magic let's revisit that warm summer afternoon at Aldridge's daughter's flat in Notting Hill...

Sunday Times cover 1965

Poster How would you paint your own wife by Alan Aldridge 1967

Just a fraction of the many Penguin covers designed by Aldridge during his Art Directorship.